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Reply to Sandeep Chatterjee 16 January 2001

 

" Non-doing is as much a doing, an occurrence

in phenomenality. Nisargadatta sat in contemplation

of the 'I Am'. That was the doing which occurred

through the body-mind complex named Nisargadatta.

The key for me, is to investigate the entity which

is seeking and whether it has the volition to seek

in the first place. All doings is appropriate,

All non-doing is also appropriate. "

 

Your play with the concepts of doing and non-doing

bring to mind the discussion of action in the

Bhagavad Gita:

'Find action in inaction, and inaction in action'.

 

Action and inaction are opposites, and must dissolve

without any trace within the Absolute state. Only

by finding some third factor can opposites be

harmonized and return to the original state from

which they have emerged in apparent opposition.

The Absolute may well consist of harmonized triads

rather than fused dualities?

 

The entity who seeks is the desire body, one's nature.

It is the jiva, who is really only a mechanism,

and is sadly quite unreal. Those who inhabit the

real have compassion on him, because he believes

he is a self and is real.

How can a mechanism have volition or will?

The jiva may believe it has will, due to Maya, and

its failure is to see that it is merely a projection

of the spiritual body. Unobserved, standing behind the

natural body is the spiritual body, smiling sweetly.

The natural body wants to become the spiritual body,

and all seeking is essentially the response to the

spiritual body calling its lover, the natural body,

to itself. The two are in love with each other, and

all spiritual quest is essentially these two turning

round each other. Neither is the Self.

 

Would you say all this is appropriate? If so why?

 

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